For the past 60 years cholesterol has been demonized. We've been telling people to avoid saturated fats and that dietary cholesterol is bad and serum cholesterol is also bad.

It is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. People will say that there's various studies finding

that high cholesterol, especially as you get older, is actually protective and is inversely

correlated with mortality from cancer as well as wait for it

cardiovascular disease I just want to share with you some of these studies because we

don't hear about these studies when we go to our primary health

professional we get a blood work done we're losing losing visceral fat, we're improving our energy, our brain function

by cutting out carbohydrates and processed foods, but sometimes as a natural response to minimizing

carbohydrate consumption in the diet, our blood cholesterol can increase and that scares your doctor,

you're often foisted, different lipid lowering medications and so forth, but I want you to be aware

of several studies finding what's known as the cholesterol paradox.

And essentially what this paradox is is that there's this correlation with higher blood cholesterol

and better protection against both death from cancer and

cardiovascular disease particularly as people get older which is quite as I mentioned

a little bit paradoxical this article here I think is important to have at your fingertips to download it was just published several days ago

titled cholesterol paradox in the community living adults is higher better and they actually found that higher total cholesterol,

as well as higher HDL cholesterol,

the high density lipoprotein,

is associated with greater longevity and mortality

and a reduction in death from cardiovascular disease,

4,469 participants that were tracked over eight years.

This was part of the Beijing elderly comprehensive health cohort study.

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